Did Congress Approve Trump’s Arch 100 Years Ago? Plus: Troubled Sewer Pipe Remains Troubled, and Richard Gere Was Spotted.

As long as we’re going back in time, around the turn of the 20th century, the US dropped plans to install arch-like ceremonial towers on Memorial Bridge after landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. called them a “slap in the face to the Lincoln Memorial.” (Cultural Landscape Foundation)